The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 107
Helena wrung her hands and beat her breast.
Who acts: Helena · What happens: wring, beat · To what, where: hands, breast
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Helena), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Helena | Helena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wrung | nsubj |
| 2 | wrung | wring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hands | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wrung | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 beat | cc |
| 6 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wrung | conj |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 breast | nmod:poss |
| 8 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beat | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wrung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wring | past | Helena | princess's hands | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 2 | beat | past | Helena not said here | princess's breast | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location breast=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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